i love the smooth animation and the meaning :)
Reviews for "Don't Look Back"
It was really good. The music was good but it didn't quite 'fit'. Something smoother would have been better.
The animation was really good, especially for 4 weeks, but I guess I'll just say my critiques regarding that without taking the time into consideration (everything posted is considered a project haha)
I wanna start by saying that it's good that you took a popular style, anime, and make it your own a little bit. Making it more cartoony than exaggerated like it normally is actually looked really great. So I only have 3 things I want to say. 1. Fix those lines. I understand this was 4 weeks, and maybe the sketchy lines are supposed to be stylized, but it just looks better with clean lines, unless you are very precise and deliberate with the sketchy lines, using them to show anger or intense movement.
2. Work on human movement. The only real problem of this was the running scene. The frontal angle looked pretty awkward, the character was really condensed, I would suggest bringing his arms out more. After that you moved to a side shot of the running (when he was older) which also looked awkward. Also the side shot of the face with open mouth looked really lazy, and personally I didn't like it (that anime style can be seen as lazy in that way, open mouths are hard to draw from the side, so either it looks like either you don't know how to, or didn't want to put the effort in.)
3. Camera. You really only had 3 angles. Front, Left Side, Back. I would mix this up, as camera adds feeling. Look into this online or in books and you can really improve story telling a lot.
Overall pretty good though, better than 99% of newgrounds animation
Is this like a subconscious thing or what?
This totally deserves to be featured. The overall aestetic is amazing. It looks hihgly traditional and I can tell that a lot of work went into this. It was really animated, but what stood out to me the most were the backgrounds. They had such a beautiful painted look to them. I wanted to just disregard the action and look at them.
But it wasn't perfect. I know you couldn't help this because of the deadline but this animation suffers a lack of polish. I don't know if the sketchy lines were intended or not so I'll leave that alone, but there were a few frames where I could clearly still see the skeletons of the characters. And this might just be a flaw on my part but it wasn't very clear what the rabbit was supposed to represent.